The end of the evening will be marked by strong headaches in Fos-sur-Mer, and it will not be the fault of the coronavirus. How did the BYers manage to lose this game (78-83, final score)? The question is likely to trot for a long time in the mind of Rémi Giuitta as his flock have long seemed untouchable, in total control. Édouard Choquet was enjoying himself (15 points to 5/5 to three points in the first half), the premises offered an attractive basketball, the gap swelled quickly (38-23, 15th minute then 49-34, 25th minute). And above all, the Nantes people seemed physically short, they who had not played since September 25 and came out of three weeks without training. So what could happen to the Fosseans? Not much, we believe.
Let us think so, this is not necessarily a problem. But having the players put it into their heads is something else. They had already been called to order, however, without consequence, by Saint-Quentin two weeks ago, one evening when the Hugo Besson festival had certainly brought the return of the SQBB out of the strict rational domain. However, we must believe that the lesson has not been fully learned. Without this being obvious as soon as they returned from the locker room, the Fosséens began to progress, wasting a lot of ammunition with 19 failures in the racket, while the NBH was gradually catching up. Showing an extremely interesting mental solidity, the men of Jean-Baptiste Lecrosnier were able to find the solutions to stop the beautiful series of Édouard Choquet and managed to domesticate the defensive aggressiveness of the Provençals, like Terry Smith, past ‘a sad 0-0-0 in the first half to a more successful second period.
And Desseignet appears …
A much more coherent offensive game that decided against the dubious soloist choices, to put it mildly, of certain BYers? Yet so talented, the young back Kevin McClain was placed in front of his limits of knowledge of the European game and locked himself in a harmful individualistic game. Likewise for Jamar Diggs who, without the excuse of age to justify a lack of discipline, has multiplied the bad choices in the money-time. Not to mention Nik Caner-Medley, certainly short of pace but very far from justifying his amazing CV (3 points at 1/9 and 2 rebounds for -3 evaluation in 20 minutes). Playing too much with fire, they burned themselves, certainly a great lesson for the rest of the season. And Nantes was able to accelerate at the ideal moment: a 10-0 in the wake of Xavi Forcada in the heart of the fourth act (from 68-61 to 68-71 between the 34th and the 36th minute), to take the lead for the first time. from Ludovic Negrobar’s inaugural basket (0-2), before finding the providential man in the person of Thibault Desseignet (16 points at 4/6, 3 rebounds and 1 assist in 14 minutes).
Arrested all summer after having had an ankle operation at the end of May, the young leader ideally launched his season by signing one of the first major feats of arms of his professional career. By scoring the last 10 points of the NBH, including two award-winning shots, the 2016 European junior champion completed the Nantes hold-up in the dying seconds. Far from being demoralized by a 0/2 in free throws a few moments before, the Roannais took a daring distant shoot 36 seconds from the final buzzer and succeeded (74-79). The coup de grace for Fos-Provence. And a superb symbol of the Nantes mind, without which nothing would have been possible at Parsemain for the Ermine this Friday evening.
Thibault Desseignet, the hero of the evening
(photo: Sébastien Grasset)
In Fos-sur-Mer,
